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Saturday, November 30, 2013

My Date From Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy) by Tellulah Darling

Sophie Bloom’s junior year has been a bit of a train wreck. After the
world’s greatest kiss re-awakened Sophie’s true identity as Persephone
(Goddess of Spring and Savior of Humanity), she fought her dragon-lady
guidance counselor to the death, navigated mean girl Bethany’s bitchy
troublemaking, and dealt with the betrayal of her backstabbing ex, Kai
(sexy Prince of Darkness). You’d think a girl could catch a break.

Yeah, right.

With Zeus stepping things up, it’s vital that Sophie retrieve
Persephone’s memories and discover the location of the ritual to stop
Zeus and Hades. So when Aphrodite strikes a deal that can unlock
Sophie’s pre-mortal past, what choice does the teen goddess have but to
accept?

The mission: stop media mogul Hermes from turning Bethany into a
global mega-celebrity. The catch? Aphrodite partners Sophie and Kai to
work together … and treat this suicide mission as a date. Which could
work out for Sophie’s plan to force Kai to admit his feelings for her–if
she doesn’t kill him first.

Add to that the fact that BFF Theo’s love life and other BFF
Hannah’s actual life are in Sophie’s hands, and suddenly being a
teenager—even a godlike one—seems a bit like … well, hell. Whatever
happened to dinner and a movie?

The YA romantic comedy/Greek mythology fireworks continue to fly in
My Date From Hell. Love meets comedy with a whole lot of sass in book
two of this teen fantasy romance series. Breaking up is easy; dating is
deadly.

Excerpt:

Aphrodite pointed her gun at me again, kind of casually. “Your problem is
you’re too hung up on the past. You gotta move forward with yer life.”
I heard Hannah give a smothered laugh.
“You got this cutie pie in love with ya, and instead of enjoying his company,
all you do is whine.” With a quick flick, Aphrodite opened the cylinder to
reload.
“He’s not in love,” I said.
She peered at Kai. “Whattya talkin’ about? Sure he is. Everyone knows
Kyrillos loves Persephone.”
“I’m Sophie,” I ground out.
She waved the gun around. “Ya ya. That too.”
That too? I took a deep breath, folded my fingers over my palms and looked
slightly to the left of her in case I accidentally started blasting. Didn’t want to
go down in history as the girl who killed the Goddess of Love.
“Nope. It’s just desire,” I said with faked calm. “Kai is so resistant to the idea
of being in love with me that your arrows don’t work. Besides which, when he
actually does fall so hard for me that he doesn’t know which way is up, I want him
to know he chose that of his own free will. That he chose me.” I threw him a
sweet smile.
“Chose you?” Kai got this look of “have we had this conversation before?” on
his face. My smile got tight.
Aphrodite scooped up a saclike pink purse laying on the ground. She rooted
around in it. “Desire is part of romantic love, silly,” she said to me.
She pulled out a handful of bullets and dumped them in Festos’ hurriedly
outstretched hands before turning back to Kai. She gestured with the still-open
chambered revolver toward him. “Your body knows what’s what. Stop fighting
it.”
Kai glowered at her.
She laughed it off, reloading. “And you,” Aphrodite said to me, as she
plucked more bullets from Festos’ hand to load into the chamber. “Yer just as
bad with your own issues.”
She couldn’t know about my insecurities around Persephone could she?
Aphrodite narrowed her eyes at me.
I gulped.
Aphrodite shot me a look of disgust and popped the final bullets into the
chambers. She gestured at each of us in turn with one pink, sparkly manicured
finger. “I’m gonna start gettin’ real mad about how youse is all dealin’ with
love.”
“There’s a whole bunch of drags around here where love is concerned,”
Festos agreed.
“Thanks so much for inviting him along,” Theo said to me.
I grimaced an apology at Theo, then shot back at Festos, “Seems there’s a
whole bunch of dogs here, too.” I looked between him and Kai.
“Oh don’t forget Pierce,” Festos replied cheerfully. “He’s a total mimbo.”
“He is not,” Hannah defended. “He’s pure love.”
Aphrodite threw her a fond smile. “I like you, girlie.”
“Love in name, hormones in game,” Theo countered.
“Look at us all in agreement,” Festos replied.
“No, because you’re talking about lust,” I protested.
“Lust is pretty good too,” Aphrodite said, “but it ain’t nothin’ like the real
thing.” She clicked the cylinder into place and looked at me. “We got a deal?
You’ll get Jack to kill the campaign?”
“You’ll undo the love thing?” I asked.
“Nope. You could do with a little love in your life. Kyrillos is obviously
brimming with love for ya now,” she ignored Kai’s snort, “so you’re gonna
enjoy it.”
“Meaning what?” I asked.
“A date,” Kai piped up. “I’d say I’m ready now.” He arched an eyebrow as if
to say “ball’s in your court.”
“I think it’s a great idea,” I slid my arm around his waist and pressed myself
up against his side.
A look of surprise flashed across his face. “Perfect.”
I could outdate him any place, any time. I brightened. This was going to be
fun. The touching part wasn’t a downside either.
“The fate of the world does dee-pend on you loving each other,” Aphrodite
said. “So, good. We’ll start with a date.”
“Still say it’s a euphemism,” Festos burst out. “And Kai doesn’t date.”
Kai snaked his arm around my waist before pressing his fingertips into my
hip. “Never wanted to before. Sophie’s the exception.”
“The euphemistic exception?” Festos asked.
“Shut up,” Kai and I fired at him in tandem.
Festos took it in stride, waggling his eyebrows cheerfully at Theo who
pretended to look disapproving but totally wasn’t. Even Hannah didn’t bother
to hide her smile.
“Only thing is,” I told Aphrodite, “I have to be back at school by Sunday
morning. I have a meeting I can’t miss. So I’ll have to get this thing with Jack
done quickly to have time for the date.”
“Going together to find Hermes is the date.” Aphrodite looked at me like I
was an idiot. “You two need as much together time as possible.”
No way. I needed all my wits about me to handle Kai. Something that
couldn’t happen if I had to track down Hermes at the same time. I tried a new
tactic. “A date involves dinner and a movie. Something romantic. Finding
Hermes hardly counts.”
She pinned me in her gaze. “Had so miny of them, Miz Expert? All a date is,
is two people spendin’ time to deepen their attraction.”
“Or kill it,” Hannah piped up.
Aphrodite scrunched up her nose. “Huh?”
“There are far more first dates than second,” Hannah explained. “Which
means that after spending time, those people realized they were not a match.”
“What she said,” I seconded.
Aphrodite narrowed her eyes at Hannah. “I don’t get ya. You talk like that
but you’re so brim up with love.”
“I’m a confounding enigma,” Hannah replied cheerfully.
Aphrodite threw her hands up. “Enough’a this nonsense. You’ll go together
to find Hermes. And you’ll be date-like doin’ it.”
That sounded like a threat.
“Almost like you planned it that way,” I said to Kai.
His smile grew wider as he gave my waist a squeeze. “Told you I get what I
want. Feel free to let that sink in.”

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